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Hexablob, the quintessential fungus

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Learcle, an overgrown plankton

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Squerm, the world's first Herbivore

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Trimangler, the world's first Carnivore

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and lastly, the basic template without any creature
in case you need it

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>>5506488
Photosynthesizer that aggregates in matts

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>>5506489
The Squerm develops simple eyes and a simple reflex: when it sees something red(for example, the Trimangler), it gets scared and swims away

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>>5506488
Learcles with a complex, wrinkly surface absorb resources from the water faster, but are also more vulnerable to tearing and cutting, so a hard anchor-shell at the bottom helps them keep themselves safe

>>5507036
Damn nice fucking love the tail eyes

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>>5506932
A species of concurrentia growing in shallow waters develops hairlike growths to increase its photosynthetic surface area

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>>5506487
Hexablobs develop mycelial tendrils to increase mineral absorption

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>>5506490
The Trimangler develops a longer and thinner body, allowing for faster pursuit (of Squerm). Small patches of tasting cells concentrated on its lips help it locate fleeing Squerm at close distances. This species is known as the Tridangler

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>>5506489
The Squerm develops extra feeding orifices to better take in drifting learcle. A thin layer of calcium carbonate also builds up on the tails of these Squerm, enabling some to slightly deter attacks from Trimangler.

Merry Christmas, anons
love all the evolutions so far

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>>5507036

>>5509614
The squerm develops musculature around the mouth, allowing it to suck in floating learcles, as well as additional eyespots

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some Learcle grow with a giant hole in their center. Having less mass to sustain, Dearcle mature and reproduce faster

ah fuck, I forgot the name of my own evo
just kill me now

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>>5507461
Some hexablobs begin opportunisticaly growing on the calcite shells of Triora, as a result of limited space and resources they become much smaller.

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>>5508069
The Tridangler's skin forms mottled patches making Squerms slower to react on approach.

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>>5508082
The Hairy Triora has sensitive hairs on it's "lips" which help it detect tasty smells and swim towards food.
Due to the calcified "club" at it's tip the tail was really heavy and hard to keep straight, so it developed more bones all along the tail's length that serve as anchoring points for muscle and thus help it move the tail

>>5509791
based exoskeleton fish

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>>5509810
haha yeah that's a fish, that's totally what I was going for haha

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>>5506487
>>5509641
It got stuck :(

>>5509960
Now you have a lichen

>>5509960
bro I had the same exact idea, when I gave it that hole

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a new Trimangler population has emerged, sporting much wider and slightly longer fins, granting it incredible speed.

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>>5507449
Some communally growing C. hirsuta begin to exchange nutrients. This is especially prevalent among those that are directly related within the same colony and is used to accelerate the maturation of the descended. Causes intracolonial competition.

Nutrient exchange channels also reinforce matts, structurally enabling some to become larger. Some are able to reach 3 feet in radius (assuming no excess predation occurs)

Rolled 8 (1d100)

Through a small shift in its axial tilt, the Planet has come to experience an extended period of cold, returning to its default state. While not severe, the decrease in temperatures may not be equally favorable for every species.

all currently living species will have to pass a survival check

3 or below means extinction
4-19 means survival
20 grants the "cold-water dweller" trait

Rolled 12, 19, 15, 17, 15, 5, 5, 14, 9, 18, 4, 5, 6, 2, 20, 4, 1, 12, 3 = 186 (19d20)

>>5506487
>>5506488
>>5506489
>>5506490

>>5506932
>>5507036
>>5507040
>>5507449

>>5507461
>>5508069
>>5508082

>>5509614
>>5509641
>>5509691
>>5509721

>>5509791
>>5509960
>>5510048
>>5510050

>>5509691
>>5509960
>>5510050

these unfortunate evolutions turn out to be dead ends, unable to withstand the drop in global temperatures

if you wish to save these creatures, you may roll a d6 to mutate it just enough to not be a different species

3 or below spells doom for the entire species
4 or above saves it

>>5510082
Do i draw the mutation also

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>>5509721
through its bi-coloration, the Tridangler experiences varying temperatures across its body, granting it an adaptive metabolism which lets it thrive even in colder waters.

>>5510084
not necessary, but appreciated
either way, the mutation must be a trait of sorts

Rolled 5 (1d6)

>>5510082
>>5510050

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>>5510093
>>5510082
A mutation occurs in hirsuta which causes thin strips of dried dead cells to curl off of the tendrils In cold conditions. These 'hairs' provide a slight buffer between it and cold air, enabling it to continue photosynthesis at high rates when it otherwise wouldn't be able to.

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>>5509791
A population of Hairy Triora can be found with more extensive and complex calcification of the tail, resembling rudimentary segmentation. This allows for better protection and even more muscle anchoring, making it much faster. It is also heavier as a result and expends more energy to get food. It also possesses more pronounced fins to better maneuver when being chased by predators (those of the trimangle genus).

Rolled 4 (1d6)

>>5509691

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>>5510535
>>5510082
>>5509691
Brrr, it's chilly outside. let me just get under the covers, all nice and snuggly.

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>>5510048
Sun's out, guns out!

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>>5510347
While the tail is to heavy to use as a weapon the newly formed spikes serve as a detergent for any trimangler trying to attack from behind

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colder conditions causes dwarfism in some Trimanglers, making them unable to chase squerm the traditional way.
Minimanglers wait in the holes of Deanuts, waiting for Squerm to come to them.

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>>5507461
Given the abundance of their food source, some of the Hexablobs compensate for the colder water with an increased metabolism and fat storage for insulation.

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>>5510086
Tridanglers develop chitinous hooks on their "lobes", allowing them to grab the soft parts of Squerm and Triora and pry away their shells

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>>5507461
More tentacles allow the Hexablob to further increase mineral absorption

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>>5507461
Hexablob populations with tougher, spiraling hyphae networks are able to better transport nutrients and maintain shape in deep, cold waters. Spores in these populations are produced mostly on the tallest part of the body, where the most nutrients are concentrated and there is the most potential for spore dispersal in the deep ocean.

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>>5506490
A species of stem-Trimangler evolved to take advantage of the ubiquitous Hexablobs.
To cope with the lower oxygen levels in the deeper waters, they develop primitive gills.

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>>5509641
With the extinction of the buttplug hexablob (>>5509960), those deanuts which had become accustomed to their relationship began attempting to cling to any fungus species they could. The survivors of this branch of the evolutionary tree were those which found the rhimozome-rich far-down hexablob, who they could properly integrate with in order to share nutrients. They are still photosynthetic, however, especially when young or in clear seas, so they are usually a relatively benign attachment.

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>>5510048
In response to the heavier armaments and greater size of some prey (such as >>5510565), this Starmangler offshoot has adopted a thicker protective dermis and a cryptic colouration. This protects it against brutal tail-clubbings AND renders the Darkstar Mangler essentially invisible to its favourite prey: those triora species with colour-specific eyespots.

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>>5509614
A population of suction-feeding squerm begins to prey upon concurrentia mats floating at the surface, making use of specialized keratin plates which line the mouth to scrape off clumps. Eye spots develop into concaved surfaces on the body known as pigment cups, allowing for better color differentiation.

>>5510930
They also become slightly larger

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>>5510086
a population of tridangler starts hunting mushmanglers instead of squerm, developing larger fins to keep up with their more agile prey.
Not even the seafloor is safe from them, due to their cold-adaptation

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>>5510573
To compensate for their size, Minimanglers begin forming packs to more easily assault Squerm

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>>5507040
due to their weight, anchored learcle more often than not simply fall to the seafloor where they wilt
the Leanchor however keeps growing despite this limitation, growing taller with age.

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>>5509791
A population of hairy triora becomes immobile as adults due to extensive calcification. Cilia previously used to smell instead are used to move drifting debris in the water towards its mouth. Becomes even more calcified to help fend off attacks. lips become elongated to provide more room for food-catching cilia

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>>5509641
Deanuts with more holes can fit more Minimanglers, and thus have a better defense against herbivores

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>>5510565
Instead of becoming completely sessile like their cousins, these creatures become merely benthic, swim-hopping along the seafloor in search of food. They are protected against attacks from above by their slightly flattened shape, spiky tail and thick carapace.

>>5510965
Is there land on this world? What is the geography like?

>>5511016
land is not yet available, but once I deem it appropriate, a few plants and fungi will have a shot at making the surface habitable

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>>5510673
A population of tridanglers develops enlarged fins and jaws to better pry away triora shells when hunting. They are slower, but much more muscular than other tridangler populations

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>>5510991
The greater osseapellis is one of the largest and most heavily musuclarized animals alive, with a long flexible tail ending in the characteristic spiky cudgel of its ancestor species AND two armoured lobe-limbs. These lobes serve as stabilizing points, allowing it to "stand" and swing its tail at its smaller predators. As an adult, it does not run, but rather stands and fights! However, it is too heavy and poorly-optimized to really swim for any length, and thus is confined to the seafloor, though it is gradually moving from shallows to deeper waters as its mass allows it to better retain heat.

Its cilia can detect vibrations, but not well. It can sense predators approaching, but can barely aim, preferring to flail about with full force and reckless abandon.

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>>5510965
As some species of Leanchor get taller and taller, the bottom layers die or go dormant, and transfer their nutrients into higher layers. These stacks can form impressive 'trees' up to 60 centimeters high. Who knows how tall their descendants might one day get, if they can figure out how to shore up their 'stalks' to prevent collapse, or protect themselves against triora and such?

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>>5510260

Some individual hirsuta in aggregate mats never fully separate bodily from their parents, causing large colonies of hirsuta to form. These Colonies keep themselves bound together with Cellulose-reinforced nutrient channels. When individual hirsuta in the colony die, other hirsuta grow over their waxy corpses to continue photosynthesis. The waxy bodies of previous hirsuta generations keep the mat safe from predation. small nutrient channels pass through dead hirsuta, taking whatever nutrients remain and allowing for water intake. A fully colonial species.

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>>5510930
Some Scrams develop siphon-like structures as an extension of their esophagus, allowing them to consume their food faster and jet away from predators in short bursts.

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The planet's general cold and the ocean's slow but steady oxygen output, has created an imbalance in the climate system.
Where once it was stable, storms have now grasped the weather globally.
Sunlight may still reach the seas, and temperature decreases are minimal, the storms drive creatures too close to the surface onto land.
The unfortunate animals that are occasionally swept ashore cannot survive the empty, oxygen-less atmosphere.

Smaller specimen of the Hexablob genus however are able to withstand these conditions.
As are specimen of the Concurrentia and Learcle genus.

These hardy organisms may pioneer life's advancement onto Land and claim their rightful place as the foundation of the ecosystem, for all eternity.

Plant and Fungus evolutions on Land are now enabled.

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>>5511729
>>5506487
Though heavily contested underwater, the base Hexablob finds a new habitat on land, where it develops an internal mineral transport system to survive the dryer environment.
Having become slightly more rigid from these veins, the Hexablock does no longer disintegrate when swept by the storm.

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>>5510260
A species of Concurrentia made its way to brackish waters and further up into the rivers. Its hairs shorten to better resist river currents.

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>>5510943
Minimanglers develop light-sensors to detect prey at greater distances. No longer forced to rely on vibration patterns to find squerm specifically, they begin hunting their larger cousins as well.

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>>5511223

After years of evolution, the Greater Osseapelis in a particular region of the seafloor have developed sets of cilia that are longer than their other pairs, which are useful for locating food. Additionally, the ones with thicker armored limbs are less likely to be washed far away by currents, and spend their lives in their territories of their own volition. This has led to the local gene pool having stronger stabilizers.

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>>5510986
Thin cellular films develop in some of the deanut's holes, forming pockets of trapped gas that help it to float.

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>>5511737
Hexablocks growing in temperate conditions begin to limit their spore production to spring and fall, when the moisture is high. To take advantage of the wind and spread their spores further, they develop a veiny, stalked fruiting body that dies off after spores have dispersed.

(Hopefully that's not too much of a jump)

>>5512981
it's a bit much visually, but I'd say it's still within boundaries, as these fungi are very gooey and squishy

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>>5511911
This new feeding strategy is a dangerous one, but only if a minimangler gets CAUGHT. Blue minimanglers use a combination of cryptic colouration and a painkilling, sedative compound in their shrunken mouthparts to simply pick at and feed upon larger animals without being detected. When one is at risk, the others will swim about frantically to draw the victim's attention, then all the shoal will disperse in different directions and regroup.

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>>5507040
Since there is no danger of sinking on the beach these learcles are able to grow slightly larger and wider

happy new year, anons

>>5514148
Same to you

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>>5511737

The Hexablocky gradually take the minerals that they consume into their bodies, and use them for structural integrity. The crystalline structure of some minerals guides the organisms into a similar configuration. Hexablocky form mats to increase their combined mass and prevent themselves from being scattered or swept by the wind.

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>>5506487
being large offers no advantage other then mass but this mass could be spent on creating more minerals making the genome more outspread and less vulnerable not putting all eggs in one basket on a big noticable treat to be eaten.
they propagate easily due to there shape one side just being indented making them more easily sweept along by currents with there soft light weight bodies

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>>5510347
a more stream lined form and some fleshy protrusions from its base catches water better when bending and whipping around to swim

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>>5510981
With the sessile lifestyle comes further calcification, encasing the stalk of Osligno. The delicate feeding arms can now be withdrawn inside the shell to protect them from predators.
The diet of Osligno expands, now including larvae of other animals and rarely even stray Minimanglers.

Rolled 78 (1d100)

This thread seems a little dead
time to spice things up a little, also
evo tree charts incoming

In the depth of space, far outside the scope of this world's life, a mighty gas giant, titan of the skies, protects this world from all threats that fly by.

Today however, this mighty planet failed to protect its terrestrial kin and let an asteroid slip by.
The mountain hurls itself at many times the speed of sound toward the bottom of the sea, where it crashes and becomes a meteorite.

A giant tsuanmi sweeps the relatively empty surface of the planet, upsetting all life in the shallows, accompanied by a short lived but powerful firestorm.

the basic Learcle, Hexablob, Trimangler and Squerm instantly go extinct.

All creatures residing in the Shallows or the Beach must roll a d20 or immediately mutate
Mutations automatically doom the unaltered variant of that species and cannot be rolled for by other players
I will not perform this roll automatically
any creature that is not rolled for is presumed extinct.

Rolls from 1 to 12 are extinctions
Rolls from 13 to 19 are surivals
A roll of 20 grants the "Tempestophile" trait

Rolled 12 (1d20)

>>5512981
Oh no! Rolling for this guy.

Rolled 18, 14 = 32 (2d20)

>>5517257
Rest in peace big fungus

Rolling for these:
>>5511905
>>5515089

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>>5517180
I got u

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>>5517180

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>>5517180
...and Trimanglers.

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>>5517180
Oh Fixed squerms. Missed a species first go round.

Rolled 13, 15, 9, 15 = 52 (4d20)

>>5513330
>>5512770
>>5511242
>>5510048
Also, rolling for these lads!

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>5517232
Rolling for additional extinctions caused via sustained asteroid fragment and impact.

Is a 1 the worst, is a 20 the best or just another big chungus of an asteroid? Will the GM even care?

Rolled 7, 1 = 8 (2d20)

>>5512860
>>5511200
I don't want to doom any unaltered variants, so I'll roll for these

>>5517458
Alas!

Rolled 3, 18, 13, 16 = 50 (4d20)

>>5511712
>>5516179
>>5511434
>>5510896
please alive

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>5510930

Rolled 11, 14, 3, 3, 2 = 33 (5d20)

>>5516057
>>5516179
>>5511712
>>5510943
>>5510939
kinda wanna see these survive desu

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>5510086
alright one last attempt to save something

In the Shallows, Fungi have gone completely extinct, driving Mushmanglers out of the area.
However, both it and its food still thrive at the bottom of the continental shelf.
On land meanwhile, another member of the fungi kingdom yet lives, the only terrestrial organism to do so.

On the ocean surface, the Concurrentia family persists through sheer numbers, a fate the rest of the plantae kingdom does not share.
Save for the Clingy Deanut, there are no survivors in the sea.

Among the herbivores a large population managed to stem the catastrophe, with every branch having one surviving species.

The Mangler population meanwhile saw a terrible decline. Starmanglers and Blue Minimanglers are the only true predators left, as the entire Dangler genus has gone extinct.
Mushmanglers however continue to thrive, but no longer inhabit the Shallows.

The Meteorite that rocked the world has already vanished into obscurity. The firestorms subsided, the ocean is calm again, and the survivors of this apocalypse are poised to repopulate the planet.

The Survivors:
>>5510048
>>5510896
>>5510891
>>5510930
>>5511434
>>5511905
>>5512770
>>5513330
>>5515089
>>5516179

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and now, as promised, the evolution trees, post-extinction

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>>5515089
>>5517820
>>5517821
The land BELONGS to the fungi.

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>>5511434
>>5517820
It's almost unfair what an advantage these survivor-colonies have, feasting upon an entire world of the dead.

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>>5513330
>>5517820
Not everyone is a team player, though. There's no "I" in "Blue Lupomangler", but they're not here to win a spelling bee.

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>>5511434
Some C. pollaeina populations develop a thick waxy coat across their surface, enabling them to better control water loss when stranded within the intertidal zones. These same populations develop deeper roots to anchor the plant and ensure access to water during low tide

The theoretical limit to a colony's size is now only determined by the lengths of the beaches they inhabit. The potential for a whole coastline to be fully populated by one colonial superorganism is here.

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>>5510048
In the absence of more advanced predators, some Starmanglers split their fins into two pairs, gaining maneuvrability. Their mouth-lobes enlarge, making grabbing of the Squerm easier.

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>>5515089
With the rise of direct competition on the beaches, some Hexablocky lose their ability to form crystalline structures, instead returning to a more gooey state.
These specimen feed not only the minerals in the ground but also the minerals present within Tentoma colonies.
Due to the abundance of their new food source, Blockablobs experience Gigantism.

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>>5515089
Some Hexablocky develop pores around their central transport vein, with which they release spores to spread further into the land

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>>5510930
A combination of no competition for food, and increased deaths through predation, has lead the Scram populace to develop two additional tails, growing out of their sides, to outrun Quadmanglers, while also growing ten-fold in size.
Thus the Effoff becomes the (current) pinnacle of marine life, able to bite entire chunks out of concurrentia matts all by itself.

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>>5510930
Some Scrams turn out to not be die-hard steroid abusers, instead taking a different route. They develop a chitinous keel and dorsal fin to stabilize themselves while swimming, while their pigment cups become primitive pinhole eyes

>>5518163
Keratinous keel*
Only noticed now

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>>5510048
by the lack of others of its kind. the Quadmangler ( ver. 2) emerges. without much competition they even started to accidentaly eat eachother. they can swim with four fins which they also use to grab prey.

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>>5513330
survived the last extinction and to ensure they wont die out the next time they started to adapt to the beutiful world of the macroparasites. because there is nothing more beautifulthan eating a random Squermid from the inside out with the whole family.

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>>5511905
Some riparia colonies grow in small clusters which drift through the water column. With the extinction of all free-floating photosynthetic plants, these riparia colonies begin to speciate into the niche left before them. These populations re-colonize the rivers and oceans, occupying both the water column and clinging to underwater surfaces in small colonies.

>>5519491
>500mm
is it meant to be this large or is that a typo?

>>5519496
it was meant to be 50 mm. Sorry about that

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>>5518163
Some skeels form full keratin beaks to help take larger chunks out of concurrentia matts and defend them from predators. The eyes also migrate further up the body, to an area which moves less during locomotion

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>>5510891
Some mushmanglers take to eating free-floating plants due to the surplus of food and lack of competition. They become larger and less agile as a result. Has elongated jaws and gill flaps

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>>5512770

The body armor of the Osseapelis fuses into a kind of carapace in response to pressure from shell-crushing Lupomanglers. As a further adaptation to bottom feeding, it develops lips around its secondary mouths, as well as three pairs of soft, uncalcified lobes behind its limbs to help it crawl around.
(It also evolves a cleaned up description)

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>>5518307
The strategy of eating the prey from inside out can be quite destructive to local host populations, forcing some Pimanglers to adopt a different strategy and feed on bodily fluids instead, while becoming even smaller at the same time.
To ensure survival of the young, they now lay their eggs inside the host where the juveniles can feed and develop until maturity.

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>>5519634
Some plantmanglers take this a step further, chasing their 'prey' up-river and inland. They become specialized for enhanced respiration and filtration to endure the variable salinity, and their sensory abilities improve as well so that they can easily seek out the richest clusters of their plant-based diet; their enlarged gills and the sensory/respiratory pores along their jaws are a testament to this. They also use them to find their way back to the shallows to mate and breed.

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>>5518140
Where sporing hexablockies encounter the greatest competition with inland and shoredwelling plants, some populations mutate to grow bigger and especially taller. They now disperse spores in heavy mats in their immediate vicinity. Some sprout and grow, but most stay small, and many more never germinate; rather, they are used to smother and suppress plants, and to stunt their growth by changing the chemical composition of topsoil while denying seedlings access to sunlight. Some areas of the land at the edges of the shore thus become terraformed by this hostile fungus, covered in thick layers of yellowish, hexagonal 'sand' that is highly toxic to most other lifeforms.

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>>5519491
Some of the marine C. eleutheria flatten part of their hair into a kind of pseudo-leaves.

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>>5519491
Some of these free-floaters, in response to increasing herbivore presence, take the necessary measures to keep themselves from being gobbled up.

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>>5519634
Some Plantmanglers develop cartilaginous struts supporting the gills and keeping them open, allowing them to function when the animal isn't moving.

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>>5519517
As predators become faster, some Shpeels develop a simple tail fin, in the form of a triangular flap of tissue.

Hey thread OP here
I will temporarily not be here
Pc blew up and i refuse to become a ph*ne poster for the time being
excuse the inconvenience

>>5527133
Will you be making a new thread once you get the PC fixed or can someone else continue it?

>>5527133
Here's hoping it continues in some fashion.

alright, pc is fixed
unfortunately
the tard who plugged it back in, singlehandedly managed to knot every single cable behind my desk
so once I get that back in order, I will make a new thread to continue this evo
if this somehow isn't done by monday, the thread will be up by wednesday
I won't be here on tuesday

>>5533333
the thread got several weeks in it and dont forget to archive

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>>5525992
Shpeelacudas are a bit smaller than their ancestral species, but really make the most of the evolutionary developments they pioneered... But a wider palate.

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>>5512770
It can't move its front lobes much, but it sure can plant them and use the to lift itself up or hold itself steady while helicoptering that morningstar tail!

>>5533333
Welcome back, QM.

>>5534647
It's already been archived
(New posts will get auto-added after about an hour)
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2023/5506483/

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>>5519491
Specimens of freshwater C. eleutheria often end up stranded on the banks of rivers during rough weather and end up drying out. To cope with this, some of their hair specialized into a rhizome-like holdfast. They also develop a degree of tolerance to dry air, letting them remain partially above water, which gives their spores an advantage.